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Later writers provide Rhesus with a more exotic parentage, claiming that his mother was one of the Muses [3] (Euterpe, [4] Calliope [5] or Terpsichore [6]) and his father, the river god Strymon. Stephanus of Byzantium mentions the name of Rhesus' sister Sete, who had a son Bithys with Ares. [7] In one account, Rhesus' brothers are called ...
Rhesus of Thrace, a king in Greek mythology; In Greek mythology, a river-god, son of Oceanus and Tethys; Rhesus, the Ancient Greek tragedy thought to have been written by Euripides; Rhesus (river), a river of the Troad mentioned by Homer; Rhesus macaque, also known as the rhesus monkey; Rhesus factor, associated with a blood type, named after ...
Rhesus (Ancient Greek: Ῥῆσος / Rhẽsos, Latin; Rhesus) was a river in Bithynia, [15] Troad, Anatolia (modern-day Hisarlik, Çanakkale, Turkey). [16] Per the Barrington Atlas, the Rhesus is likely Karaath Çay, a tributary of the Biga Çayı (known to antiquity as the Granicus). [17]
[1] [2] [3] This little river, which is otherwise of no importance, owes its celebrity to the story of the Argonauts. [4] It also bore the names of Rhesaeus and Rhesus, [2] [5] the last of which seems to have arisen from a confusion with the Rhesus mentioned by Homer. Its site is identified with the Riva Deresi in Asiatic Turkey. [6]
Morgan Island is uninhabited, and is home to a breeding colony of approximately 3,500 free-ranging, Indian-origin rhesus monkeys. There is a 370-acre (150 ha) portion of upland that supports a semi-tropical maritime forest where the monkey colony primarily resides.
In Greek mythology, Strymon (/stryˈmɔːn/; Ancient Greek: Στρυμών) was a river-god and son of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. [1] He was a king of Thrace. [2] By the Muses, [3] Euterpe [4] or Calliope [5] or Terpsichore, [6] he became the father of Rhesus. His other sons were Olynthus [7] and Brangas. [2]
Later in the Iliad, Rhesus, another Thracian king, makes an appearance. Cisseus, father-in-law to the Trojan elder Antenor, is also given as a Thracian king. Homeric Thrace was vaguely defined, and stretched from the River Axios in the west to the Hellespont and Black Sea in the east.
In the 6th century BC the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquered Thrace, starting in 513 BC, when the Achaemenid king Darius I amassed an army and marched from Achaemenid-ruled Anatolia into Thrace, and from there he crossed the Arteskos river and then proceeded through the valley-route of the Hebros river. This was an act of conquest by Darius I ...